The presentation is very engaging, but the narrative pretty confusing. Too little overall structure and too much divergence from the stated topic. How do all these interesting counterpoint creations relate to the production of a baroque fugue?
Who said anything about baroque? Also I know I ramble and am disorganized haha I try to mitigate that sometimes with my edited videos like my melody series
Very interesting video and full of practical advice about approaching the subject. However I wouldn’t say it is appropriate for a beginner, more an intermediate who is interested in the wider aspects of fugal writing.
That sounds amazing!! I was reading about Bartok combining scales in a similar manner, maybe there's a rabbit hole waiting (or a detour who knows). Again that run sounds great and yeah the idea of piecing together runs is great. I play and found that the whole time and diminished scale are ideal for this on that instrument. I'm sure ideas like this can be also leveraged with that in mind, where the change helps with the phrasing
15:38 thinking about strings as multiple instruments .... Interesting, as a guitarist, I've thought about that. But, I never expected someone else to say so .. In that regard, any solo piece can be considered a delicate balance between orchestration and execution. Because of this reason I find MIDI guitar a very interesting ocean of possibilities, as you basically have 6 keyboards sandwiched together. And while you can and may voice them identically, I find the idea of providing each string different voices fertile ground for exploration... And let's not even factor mechanically unfeasible tunings. Part of what motivates me to learn is just peering into these vast unexplored possibilities. Anyway, back to the lecture. Just needed to pause here and think about this for a second and share.
Man so much to say, wonderful piece.... Sounds incredible orchestrated, learned a ton, and had a great time on this journey I mean one thing is to learn from someone who's knowledgeable on the subject, but to me, it's much better if you also have an appreciation for their own works. I mean yes you get knowledge, but also a bit of experience in getting to results that are already pleasing. Like Kiyosaki says, a real teacher someone who's awesome at what they do explaining from active experience in their field.
I think that was actually a random segment in the middle of my melody series where I was talking about function change, I think it's the emotional impact one but I'm not sure if that's the one you were talking about. The one where I described playing on my melodica with silly video effects? If it's more in depth systematic explanation I honestly don't know
This has the feel of Prokofiev or Shostakovich symphonies. I didn’t realize the Philippines had a composer of this caliber. Very pleasant to listen to. Amazing!
I wish I had the resources to translate all of my videos into as many languages as possible! Perhaps there's an AI way to do it, maybe you could download the video, there's a free AI somewhere I'm sure that can convert the audio into text, maybe then paste the script into chat GPT, and have it translate to Spanish? Just an idea.
does this soundfont work in lmms? the instrument sounds very good and i would like to try making something with it but i only have lmms as my music making software
I've never using lmms, but based on what I found online it seems possible and fairly easy: "To use a Soundfont, use the Sf2 Player plugin in the Instrument Plugins tab. Just drag it into your Song Editor, and then click its entry once to configure. In the Sf2 Player window, point the player to your Soundfont file." There are tons of great soundfonts out there, available for free download upon googling. Hope that helps, have fun!!
JJ, I have literally spent two dozen hours at odd hours trying to find these videos again. I saw a few of them about 5 years ago and they explained chord relatioships and mediants so well in composing, but i didn't really have time to study them properly. so i've been combing for hours on hours ( i was positive your name was david for some reason) I am so glad to have found them! thanks again
What about the strings under Legacy -> Logic -> Orchestral -> Strings? Those are the ones I typically use. Do you still prefer the ones you use in this video over those?
